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* feat(starlark,on-demand): the third-party fixes worth taking, plus an MQTT bridge Analysis of ant456/ledmatrix-fixes-repo, a third-party collection of patches and services built while running this project on Starlark apps under MQTT control. Its patches are whole-file copies taken against an older tree, so applying them as written would revert #523's frame pacing, #534's display() bool returns and the GitHub token masking in plugins_manager.js. Three of its claimed fixes are already in main, and its api_v3 Starlark routes are #535's. What follows is the rest -- verified against current code, and reimplemented where the patch's approach did not hold up. **On-demand display.** `pinned` reached the controller from the API, was stored on it and republished in the status payload, but never narrowed the rotation -- a pinned request still cycled every mode its plugin owns. Right for a sports plugin, whose modes are views of one subject; wrong for a plugin whose modes are unrelated, which is every Starlark app. Now honoured, and it survives a restart. Restarting while on-demand was active loaded *only* the on-demand plugin, so normal rotation had nothing to return to for the life of the process -- and a restart mid-session is routine, since that is how an update is applied. The panel came back cycling one plugin's modes with no way out but clearing the cache by hand. Every enabled plugin loads now; on-demand still resumes on its saved mode. Stop requests are exempt from the duplicate guards on purpose, so that a second click stops a mode a race left running -- which means consuming the mailbox is the only thing that ends one. It was never consumed, so the same stop was re-read and re-processed on every poll, forever. Both paths now share one compare-before-delete helper. **Starlark rendering.** `extract_schema` parsed the source with a regex, which can only see option lists written out literally: an app whose dropdown is filled from a live API call inside `get_schema()` came back empty, and the config form offered nothing to pick. Now runs `pixlet schema`, which executes the app, and falls back to the parser when Pixlet is absent, too old for the subcommand, or the app fails to run. The third-party patch replaced the parser outright and hardcoded /usr/local/bin/pixlet; this keeps the fallback and the binary search. A `|` in a config value was dropped by a shell-metacharacter filter, though the command is a list with no shell involved -- and apps do use it as a separator inside one value. The key went missing silently and the app rendered its own "not configured" screen with nothing to say why. And a 0-byte render was reported as success: Pixlet exits 0 and writes nothing when an app has no content, which read downstream as a working app drawing a black panel. **Starlark display.** `display()` ignored the mode it was called with, so a specific app could not be addressed. It now accepts `display_mode` -- which is the whole mechanism, since the controller inspects the signature before passing it. Found while there: `_select_next_app` ran only while `current_app` was unset, so with several apps installed the first was picked once and shown forever while the rest were rendered on schedule and never displayed. And `enable_scrolling` was missing, so multi-frame apps were called once per rotation slot and never advanced past frame one. **GET /api/v3/display/modes.** Every mode that can be requested on-demand, with the plugin that owns it. Nothing exposed this, so anything driving the display from outside the web UI read each plugin's manifest.json off disk and reimplemented PluginManager's fallbacks. It also triggers discovery, which is otherwise lazy and normally happens because a person opened the dashboard. **integrations/mqtt_bridge.** Home Assistant control over MQTT Discovery: a mode select, a stop button, power, brightness. Rewritten against the API rather than the filesystem, so it needs no read access to config.json and cannot drift from the web UI. paho-mqtt 2.x VERSION2, TLS, an availability topic that is also the last will, and secrets from the environment. **Two opt-in extras.** A DNS single-request unit, for glibc's parallel A/AAAA lookup stalling ~5s per name on routers that answer only the A query -- which makes any plugin calling an external API slow and Starlark apps, which have a render timeout, fail outright. And a Pixlet config editor: a script you run and Ctrl+C rather than the third-party version's always-on unauthenticated Flask service, since it stops the display for the length of a session. Neither is installed by default. Long Starlark app names now wrap instead of overflowing their card. 115 new tests across 5 files. Also unblocked test_starlark_display_contract.py, which was silently skipping wherever fcntl is absent. Whole suite: no new failures against main. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(mqtt_bridge): the five issues Codacy flagged on this branch All in the new bridge, all real: * requests floor was 2.31.0, which carries CVE-2024-35195, CVE-2024-47081 and CVE-2026-25645. Raised to >=2.33.0,<3.0.0, which is what the project's own requirements.txt already pins. * `import time` was never used. * `"mqtt_password": None` in DEFAULTS read as a hardcoded credential. It is the "no password configured" default; marked nosec B105, the convention used elsewhere in the repo. Also dropped an unused `build_app` from the display-modes test imports. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: the review findings on this PR Nine of CodeRabbit's ten, plus the CodeQL alert. The tenth is wrong and is answered below. **One bad config section blanked the whole mode list.** `/display/modes` read `full_config.get(plugin_id, {}).get('enabled')`, so a non-dict under a plugin id -- a shape DisplayController already guards, so it happens -- raised AttributeError mid-loop and answered 500 with no modes at all. Every MQTT bridge entity is built from that list. Now skipped with a warning. **The DNS scripts reported success they had not earned.** Three separate paths: `resolvconf -u` failing was swallowed by `|| true`; the systemd-resolved branch exited 0 without applying anything, so the oneshot unit recorded success while the workaround was inactive; and the installer's `|| echo` turned a failed start into "installation complete." with exit 0. All three now fail loudly. `single-request` is a glibc resolv.conf option with no resolved.conf equivalent, so on those hosts the honest answer is that it cannot be applied. A NetworkManager-generated resolv.conf is regenerated on connection changes, not only at boot, and the unit is oneshot with RemainAfterExit -- so the option can vanish mid-boot with nothing to put it back. Now detected and stated plainly rather than implied to be permanent. **`Before=` does not order a manual restart.** It only orders units already in the same transaction, so `systemctl restart ledmatrix` could bypass the fix. install_dns_fix.sh now writes a ledmatrix.service drop-in with Wants= and After=. Wants=, not Requires=: a DNS workaround failing should not stop the display. **The Pixlet editor's `--lan` is gone.** `pixlet serve` has no authentication, and a printed warning is not access control. Loopback only, with the SSH port-forward in the header where the flag used to be documented -- SSH does the authenticating and nothing is left listening. **The MQTT example config now defaults to TLS** on 8883. The installer copies it verbatim, and without TLS the broker password and every command cross the network in cleartext. A plaintext broker is still supported and documented, and the bridge warns once at startup when a password is configured without TLS. **Not taken: "the upstream Pixlet CLI has no `schema` subcommand."** Upstream tidbyt/pixlet has none, but `scripts/download_pixlet.sh` installs `tronbyt/pixlet`, whose `cmd/schema.go` is `schema [PATH]` -> JSON on stdout, built on `runtime.NewAppletFromPath`, so it does execute `get_schema()`. That is exactly what extract_schema_via_pixlet calls. A binary without the subcommand exits non-zero and falls back to the source parser, which is already covered by a test. **CodeQL stack-trace exposure: not taken either.** I removed `details` first and that broke test_web_error_detail.py::test_no_api_v3_handler_discards_its_exception, which enforces `describe_exception` across all ~75 handlers -- written because a device with failing storage answered "see logs for details" from the log viewer itself. describe_exception redacts credentials; the trade-off is the project's and is already made. Restored, with the reasoning in a comment. 11 new tests. Whole suite: no new failures against main, 4127 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LEDMatrix Documentation
This directory contains guides, references, and architectural notes for the LEDMatrix project. If you are setting up a Pi for the first time, start with the project root README — it covers hardware, OS imaging, and the one-shot installer. The pages here go deeper.
I'm a new user
- GETTING_STARTED.md — first-time setup walkthrough
- WEB_INTERFACE_GUIDE.md — using the web UI
- PLUGIN_STORE_GUIDE.md — installing and managing plugins
- WIFI_NETWORK_SETUP.md — WiFi and AP-mode setup
- TROUBLESHOOTING.md — common issues and fixes
- SSH_UNAVAILABLE_AFTER_INSTALL.md — recovering SSH after install
- CONFIG_DEBUGGING.md — diagnosing config problems
- LOW_MEMORY_BOARDS.md — Pi Zero 2 W / 3B+ / 1GB Pi 4 memory limits
I want to write a plugin
Start here:
- PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT_GUIDE.md — end-to-end workflow
- PLUGIN_QUICK_REFERENCE.md — cheat sheet
- PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE.md — display, cache, and plugin-manager APIs
- PLUGIN_ERROR_HANDLING.md — error-handling patterns
- DEV_PREVIEW.md — preview plugins on your dev machine without a Pi
- EMULATOR_SETUP_GUIDE.md — running the matrix emulator
Going deeper:
- ADVANCED_PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT.md — advanced patterns
- PLUGIN_ARCHITECTURE_SPEC.md — original plugin-system design spec (historical; see its banner for what has drifted)
- PLUGIN_DEPENDENCY_GUIDE.md / PLUGIN_DEPENDENCY_TROUBLESHOOTING.md
- PLUGIN_WEB_UI_ACTIONS.md (+ example JSON)
- PLUGIN_CUSTOM_ICONS.md
- PLUGIN_REGISTRY_SETUP_GUIDE.md (+ registry template)
- STARLARK_APPS_GUIDE.md — Starlark-based mini-apps
- widget-guide.md — widget development
- ADAPTIVE_LAYOUT.md — render legibly on any panel size (opt-in font/layout scaling)
- plugin-safety-harness.md — test a plugin across every screen and matrix size
Configuring plugins
- PLUGIN_CONFIG_QUICK_START.md — minimal config you need
- PLUGIN_CONFIGURATION_GUIDE.md — schema design
- PLUGIN_CONFIGURATION_TABS.md — multi-tab UI configs
- PLUGIN_CONFIG_ARCHITECTURE.md — how the config system works
- PLUGIN_CONFIG_CORE_PROPERTIES.md — properties every plugin honors
Advanced features
- ADVANCED_FEATURES.md — Vegas scroll, on-demand display, cache management, background services, permissions
- FONT_MANAGER.md — font system
- SKIN_SYSTEM.md — skin architecture for sports scoreboards
- CREATING_SKINS.md — writing and validating a skin
Reference
- CONFIG_REFERENCE.md — every key in config.json and config_secrets.json
- REST_API_REFERENCE.md — all web-interface HTTP endpoints
- PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE.md — Python APIs available to plugins
- DEVELOPER_QUICK_REFERENCE.md — common dev tasks
- PLUGIN_IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md — what the plugin system actually does
Contributing to LEDMatrix itself
- DEVELOPMENT.md — environment setup
- HOW_TO_RUN_TESTS.md — running the test suite
- MULTI_ROOT_WORKSPACE_SETUP.md — multi-repo workspace
- MIGRATION_GUIDE.md — breaking changes between releases
- SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md — how the sports scoreboard base classes are organized
Archive
docs/archive/ holds older guides that have been superseded or describe
features that have been removed. They are kept for historical context and
git history but should not be relied on.
Contributing to the docs
- Markdown only, professional tone, minimal emoji.
- Prefer adding to an existing page over creating a new one. If you add a new page, link it from this index in the section it belongs to.
- If a page becomes obsolete, move it to
docs/archive/rather than deleting it, so links don't rot. - Keep examples runnable — paths, commands, and config keys here should match what's actually in the repo.